.
BROOKS, _her footman_ George Harcourt.
BENSON, _her maid_ Belle Bohn.
SIR WILFRID CATES-DARBY George Arliss.
JOHN KARSLAKE John Mason.
MRS. CYNTHIA KARSLAKE, _his divorced wife_ Mrs. Fiske.
NOGAM, _his valet_ Dudley Digges.
TIM FIDDLER Robert V. Ferguson.
THOMAS, THE PHILLIMORE'S _family servant_ Richard Clarke.

Scene--New York. Time--The Present.

Revived in New York at The Playhouse, Tuesday Evening, September 28,
1915, with the following Cast.

PHILIP PHILLIMORE Lumsden Hare.
GRACE PHILLIMORE Norah Lamison.
MRS. PHILLIMORE Eugenie Woodward.
MISS HENEAGE Josephine Lovett.
MATTHEW PHILLIMORE Albert Reed.
WILLIAM SUDLEY John Cromwell.
MRS. VIDA PHILLIMORE Mary Nash.
SIR WILFRID CATES-DARBY Ernest Lawford.
JOHN KARSLAKE Conway Tearle.
MRS. CYNTHIA KARSLAKE Grace George.
BROOKS Selwyn Joyce.
TIM FIDDLER Tracy Barrow.
NOGAM G. Guthrie McClintic.
THOMAS Richard Clarke.
BENSON Anita Wood.

_To Marion Lea_

THE NEW YORK IDEA

ACT I.

SCENE. _Living-room in the house of_ PHILIP PHILLIMORE.
_Five_ P. M. _of an afternoon of May. The general air and
appearance of the room is that of an old-fashioned, decorous,
comfortable interior. There are no electric lights and no
electric bells. Two bell ropes as in old-fashioned houses.
The room is in dark tones inclining to sombre and of
old-fashioned elegance._

_Seated in the room are_ MISS HENEAGE, MRS. PHILLIMORE _and_
THOMAS. MISS HENEAGE _is a solidly built, narrow-minded woman
in her sixties. She makes no effort to look younger than she
is, and is expensively but quietly dressed, with heavy
elegance. She commands her household and her family
connection, and on the strength of a large and steady